Buy or Sell: Donte Moncrief

by | Aug 16, 2016 | 2016 Season, Fantasy Football

Donte Moncriefbuying-selling
ADP: 66.5
WR: 28

Donte Moncrief headed into the 2015 season with a lot of hype and early on he came through, putting up usable fantasy numbers through six of the first seven games.

Then Andrew Luck was injured. Things didn’t spiral down the tubes or anything like that, but Moncrief got a lot more inconsistent. He finished the uneven campaign with 64 catches, 733 yards and six TDs on 105 targets, a fine second season, but short of what his owners had hoped for after the hot start.

Now Luck is healthy and the Colts are hoping to rebound from a disappointing 8-8 season. Moncrief is projected to be one of the key pieces of that puzzle, as a complement to T.Y. Hilton and a catalyst on what will have to be a pass-heavy offense.

So what will the real Donte Moncrief look like?

John Vomhof Jr.: Buy (more…)

Senior Committee Selects Kenny Easley as Hall of Fame Finalist

Senior Committee Selects Kenny Easley as Hall of Fame Finalist

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Hall of Fame

The Pro Football Hall of Fame senior committee selected Seattle safety Kenny Easley as its nominee for

Courtesy of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Courtesy of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

enshrinement in the class of 2017.

Easley was a ferocious hitter and among the best defensive players to not make the Hall so far – potentially even better than Ronnie Lott, according to some, including former Raiders TE Todd Christensen.

(Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue have also been named finalists as contributors.)

He amassed five Pro Bowls and three AP First-Team All Pro awards, according to Pro Football Reference, and he was first-team on the All-1980s team. He was the AFC Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1981, AFC Defensive Player of the Year in 1983 and NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1984.

The problems? The biggest is that his career was cut short after seven seasons due to a damaged kidney. He also plays safety, where voters have created a logjam by enshrining them nearly as infrequently as they do punters and kickers. (more…)

2016 Hall of Fame Class unveiled

by | Feb 6, 2016 | Hall of Fame

It reportedly took the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s voting board less than a minute to determine that Brett Favre

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Courtesy of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

would be a first-ballot enshrinee in the class of 2016.

Favre headlines a class that also includes coach Tony Dungy, WR Marvin Harrison, DE/LB Kevin Greene, T Orlando Pace, contributor Edward DeBartolo Jr. and senior candidates Dick Stanfel and QB Ken Stabler.

Voters started the day by whittling a group of 15 finalists down to 10. Those eliminated on the first cut were K Morten Andersen, S Steve Atwater, WR Terrell Owens, G Alan Faneca and RB Edgerrin James, meaning the five modern era candidates who made the final 10 but were not selected were QB Kurt Warner, T Joe Jacoby, RB Terrell Davis, S John Lynch and Coach Don Coryell. The group of 15 finalists was unveiled last month.

Once the five modern-era finalists had been selected, selectors voted yes or no on each of those candidates and on Stanfel, Stabler and DeBartolo. Each needed 80 percent yes votes to earn enshrinement. The class of 2016 hits the max number of eight that can be inducted in any given year. (more…)

NFL Picks 2015: Super Bowl

by | Feb 4, 2016 | 2015 season, NFL Picks, NFL Playoffs, Super Bowl

Road teams ruled the wild card round, but home teams have come back with a vengeance. In the six games since weekly-picksthey are undefeated.

That means it’s number one versus number one in the Super Bowl – as it probably should be for the league’s 50th big game.

Tony nailed the conference championship winners. He’s tied with John Vomhof for the entirety of the postseason. The rest of us split the championship games. Here are the standings heading into the Super Bowl.

Conf Champ Postseason
Tony 2-0 8-2
John Vomhof Jr 1-1 8-2
Anthony Maggio 1-1 7-3
Andy 1-1 6-4

And after 21 weeks of football, it all comes down to this. Two suffocating defenses and two great QB storylines – the young, brash rising star and the old, breaking down, hall-of-famer to be – squaring off for the Lombardi Trophy. Here’s how we see it: (more…)

Bet the Mortgage: Super Bowl 2015-16 – Best Bets

by | Feb 4, 2016 | 2015 season, NFL Gambling, NFL Playoffs, Super Bowl

So what I’ve been doing wrong all season is betting on point spreads and money lines and not spending enough time weekly-betsbetting over/unders.

Well, it’s obviously not that simple, but I largely got it right in the conference championship games – though I would have gotten the spread wrong on Carolina/Arizona. I really thought the Cardinals were at least going to put up a better fight.

Nonetheless, two big bets ran my season total back into the black, albeit only slightly. Here are the standings:

Starting $$ Conf record Conf wk $$ Playoff record Current $$
Andy $6,472 2-0 +$3,722 4-5-1 $10,194

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